You’re watching the first Homo denisova to walk the earth in a hundred and fifty centuries grope their way into adolescence. You haven’t wanted a drink for weeks and you’re not — really, you’re not — falling in love with your co-worker who is the only other Homo sapiens in the entire pine forest. It’s all peachy until the Denisovans start holding singing contests in which the loser’s head gets bashed in. Now what the hell do you do?

You're watching the first Homo denisova to walk the earth in a hundred and fifty centuries grope their way into adolescence.You haven't wanted a drink for weeks and you're not - really, you're not - falling in love with your co-worker who is the only other Homo sapiens in the entire pine forest.It's all peachy until the Denisovans start holding singing contests in which the loser's head gets bashed in.Now what the hell do you do?

Harrison Carver awakes one Saturday morning to find a time-displaced army recruiter on his doorstep. An actual Uncle Sam from the 1950s somehow managed to find his way into the 2010s and recruits Harrison to help him retrieve several AWOL soldiers.

When Megan decided to go on a camping trip with her two college roommates, she had no idea that she would find herself involved in an alien plot to conquer Earth. And she certainly had no idea that a handsome extraterrestrial would find her “enchanting.” Can a girl with low self-esteem and no experience with romance save her world and navigate the pitfalls of love with a dashing, but enigmatic alien whose true motivations are impossible to know?

Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience. It is vitally important for the welfare of human society and - this book argues - should become more widely accepted in our community as a mainstream educational and therapeutic tool. This book explores the importance of music throughout human evolution, and its continued relevance to modern-day human society. Throughout, the emphasis is on the origin of music and how (and where) it is processed in our brains, exploring in detail the genetic and cultural evolution of modern, loquacious humans, how we may have evolved with unique neural and cognitive architecture, and why two complementary but distinct communication systems - language and music - remain a human universal. In addition the book explores, in some depth, the different theories that have been put forward to explain why musical communication was (and remains) advantageous to our species, with a particular emphasis on the role of music and dance in enhancing altruistic and prosocial behaviours. The author suggests that music, and the social harmonization it brings, was of vital importance in early humans as we became more and more individualized by the emergence of modern language and the modern mind, and the realization that we are mortal. 'Music, Evolution, and the Harmony of Souls' demonstrates the evolutionary sociobiological importance of music as a driver of cooperative and interactive behaviour throughout human existence, and what this evolutionary imperative means to twenty-first century humanity and beyond, from social and medical/neurological perspectives

Forced to leave his home, a boy learns magic from a mysterious traveling old man. When a boy's family is killed, and his home destroyed by marauders, he begins a journey with a traveling old man. As time and distance takes him further from his home, the boy strives to learn everything he can from the old man before he dies. What will he do if the old man dies, despite his best efforts?

Restored to life in a future world where access to the very air he breathes is rationed, a man attempts to break free from the governmental restraints, only to discover why the government now regulates everything.